Heard of us?

We're an award-winning bank; backing people to fulfil life's hopes and dreams.

Now is your chance…

The Non-Production Environments and DevOps team are a small, multi-skilled team who look after Aldermore's test and development environments, as well as the development and roll-out of DevOps and other automation solutions across the whole Bank. The team's role is expanding as the Bank transforms and we are also becoming the primary support point for Aldermore's cloud hosted solutions.

We attract talent; by being fully immersed in our business, influencing and understanding our short, medium and long term aspirations. We develop our people; to ensure they fulfil their hopes and dreams, whilst continuing to meet the needs and expectations of our dynamic business.

We are a high performing, high profile team. We have worked hard to establish ourselves as trusted advisors; providing the correct balance of knowledge and challenge which supports managers and leaders make the right decisions at difficult times.

The role of DevOps and Environment Support Engineer is really important to us. You will be supporting the existing non-production environments, assisting the Bank's new and existing cloud hosted environments, and designing and developing automated deployment and configuration solutions.

Based in our dynamic Reading office, you will sit amongst a wide team and report to the Non-Production Environments and DevOps Manager

What would your day look like?

This is not a pure DevOps role. It is expected that the duties related to supporting the existing manually delivered environments will continue for some time and will make up a significant part of the day to day activities; however it presents an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of a changing organisation.

DevOps

Environment Support

Change Management

Configuration Management

What do we expect of you?

• Proven experience with some of the following:

Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, SonarQube, Sentinel, GitHub, TFS, Maven, Ant, MSBuild, Docker

• Extensive Technical background in Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions,

VMWare ESXi and/or Microsoft Hyper-V, networks, firewalls, load-balancers and web-application firewalls

• Good experience of Java and .NET software development environments
• A good working knowledge of Java EE application servers e.g. JBOSS, WebLogic etc.
• Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux operating systems (installation, configuration, patching)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (or another enterprise DBMS e.g. Oracle)
• A good understanding of the waterfall and agile software development methodologies

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, synonymous with our proposition to our Customers.
• A smart yet comfortable working environment, well located for the daily commute and those lunchtime errands.
• A growing organisation that defines itself as being nimble, lean and strong.
• A drive for continuous improvement, for which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A visible and approachable ExCo; who you will very likely to bump into whilst making your morning coffee.

And of course you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Still Curious?

A lot can happen in a year!

In 2019 the Group was formed; bringing together two very successful businesses, under the group umbrella. Whilst our parent company operates internationally from their HQ in South Africa, we are a UK-based financial services specialist that supports our customers across a range of products and services, with hubs throughout the UK, including London, Reading, Manchester and Cardiff.

We also celebrated our 10th Birthday and fundamentally 10 years of helping those with ideas; by saying yes to our customers. We've propelled entrepreneurs on their journeys; we've given first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; and we've opened up the lending market to many.

As for what the next 12 months has to offer; we are embarking upon the delivery of our Purpose; a Purpose that underpins our next 3 to 5 years as a growing business. Join us today and we will make the same Promises to you as an employee, as we do to each of our Customers.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by HR.

Where a DBS check or CIFAS check is identified as necessary, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that an application for a DBS certificate or a CIFAS check will be submitted in the event of the individual being offered the position.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer.

Heard of us?

We're an award-winning bank; backing people to fulfil life's hopes and dreams.

Now is your chance…

The Non-Production Environments and DevOps team are a small, multi-skilled team who look after Aldermore's test and development environments, as well as the development and roll-out of DevOps and other automation solutions across the whole Bank. The team's role is expanding as the Bank transforms and we are also becoming the primary support point for Aldermore's cloud hosted solutions.

We attract talent; by being fully immersed in our business, influencing and understanding our short, medium and long term aspirations. We develop our people; to ensure they fulfil their hopes and dreams, whilst continuing to meet the needs and expectations of our dynamic business.

We are a high performing, high profile team. We have worked hard to establish ourselves as trusted advisors; providing the correct balance of knowledge and challenge which supports managers and leaders make the right decisions at difficult times.

The role of DevOps and Environment Support Engineer is really important to us. You will be supporting the existing non-production environments, assisting the Bank's new and existing cloud hosted environments, and designing and developing automated deployment and configuration solutions.

Based in our dynamic Reading office, you will sit amongst a wide team and report to the Non-Production Environments and DevOps Manager

What would your day look like?

This is not a pure DevOps role. It is expected that the duties related to supporting the existing manually delivered environments will continue for some time and will make up a significant part of the day to day activities; however it presents an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of a changing organisation.

DevOps

Environment Support

Change Management

Configuration Management

What do we expect of you?

• Proven experience with some of the following:

Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, SonarQube, Sentinel, GitHub, TFS, Maven, Ant, MSBuild, Docker

• Extensive Technical background in Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions,

VMWare ESXi and/or Microsoft Hyper-V, networks, firewalls, load-balancers and web-application firewalls

• Good experience of Java and .NET software development environments
• A good working knowledge of Java EE application servers e.g. JBOSS, WebLogic etc.
• Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux operating systems (installation, configuration, patching)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (or another enterprise DBMS e.g. Oracle)
• A good understanding of the waterfall and agile software development methodologies

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, synonymous with our proposition to our Customers.
• A smart yet comfortable working environment, well located for the daily commute and those lunchtime errands.
• A growing organisation that defines itself as being nimble, lean and strong.
• A drive for continuous improvement, for which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A visible and approachable ExCo; who you will very likely to bump into whilst making your morning coffee.

And of course you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Still Curious?

A lot can happen in a year!

In 2019 the Group was formed; bringing together two very successful businesses, under the group umbrella. Whilst our parent company operates internationally from their HQ in South Africa, we are a UK-based financial services specialist that supports our customers across a range of products and services, with hubs throughout the UK, including London, Reading, Manchester and Cardiff.

We also celebrated our 10th Birthday and fundamentally 10 years of helping those with ideas; by saying yes to our customers. We've propelled entrepreneurs on their journeys; we've given first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; and we've opened up the lending market to many.

As for what the next 12 months has to offer; we are embarking upon the delivery of our Purpose; a Purpose that underpins our next 3 to 5 years as a growing business. Join us today and we will make the same Promises to you as an employee, as we do to each of our Customers.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by HR.

Where a DBS check or CIFAS check is identified as necessary, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that an application for a DBS certificate or a CIFAS check will be submitted in the event of the individual being offered the position.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer.

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

A unique opportunity here to join a well-established East London (Liverpool Street) 6yr old EdTech startup. Our client has 900,000 monthly web visits and 3000 transactions taking place per day! They are self-revenue generating and profit making yet still have investors knocking on the door! Currently at 45 heads this role is a newly created position to replace a contractor and for you to shape and build a future DevOps/SRE team.

Reporting to the CTO, in this role you will have autonomy and direction in how you instil a DevOps culture and collaborate with the tech team and the business as well as have autonomy on selection of software vendors/tooling.

Our client also utilises machine learning technology that maximises their product for the client based and helps them to gain market share.

Core tech environment:

• AWS - AWS - AWS ! (native AWS tools used at the moment)
• EC2 - x4 containers
• S3
• RDS for databases
• CI/CD - Codebuild & CodePipeline
• Lambda (some)

Our client's core application that sits on the above infrastructure is written in Java with a MySQL database backend.

Core projects will be to continue to bring in-house all of the hosting and pipelines from a 3rd party consultancy. You will be instrumental in improving the pipeline velocity and effectiveness (migrating code utiliseing Bamboo into Codebuild & code pipeline). You will be breaking down a monolith application and help architect and manage a truly microservices environment.

Whilst products such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes are not in place currently, there is no reason where you cannot implement such products if this is the right direction for you to take.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
• You have been a tech lead before in your area of expertise
• Solid experience with AWS (3+ years) - CloudFormation, CodePipeline, RDS, EC2, CloudFront, SNS, SQS
• Infrastructure-as-code and automating the heck out of everything is your motto
• You have experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
• Familiarity with development in Java-based backend microservice or serverless technologies (Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, etc)
• Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, CodePipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc.
• You can work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

This is a great time to be joining this organisation and is a bit of a one-off opportunity to take the lead here!

Benefits

• A flexible work-from-home policy (1 day per week) and option for flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work autonomously and make use of your creative flair
• Tuesday Breakfasts, Team lunches, Friday socials and regular team events & outings
• 25 days holiday
• Cycle to Work scheme and tech acquisition schemes
• Contrib Pension

APPLY ASAP!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

A unique opportunity here to join a well-established East London (Liverpool Street) 6yr old EdTech startup. Our client has 900,000 monthly web visits and 3000 transactions taking place per day! They are self-revenue generating and profit making yet still have investors knocking on the door! Currently at 45 heads this role is a newly created position to replace a contractor and for you to shape and build a future DevOps/SRE team.

Reporting to the CTO, in this role you will have autonomy and direction in how you instil a DevOps culture and collaborate with the tech team and the business as well as have autonomy on selection of software vendors/tooling.

Our client also utilises machine learning technology that maximises their product for the client based and helps them to gain market share.

Core tech environment:

• AWS - AWS - AWS ! (native AWS tools used at the moment)
• EC2 - x4 containers
• S3
• RDS for databases
• CI/CD - Codebuild & CodePipeline
• Lambda (some)

Our client's core application that sits on the above infrastructure is written in Java with a MySQL database backend.

Core projects will be to continue to bring in-house all of the hosting and pipelines from a 3rd party consultancy. You will be instrumental in improving the pipeline velocity and effectiveness (migrating code utiliseing Bamboo into Codebuild & code pipeline). You will be breaking down a monolith application and help architect and manage a truly microservices environment.

Whilst products such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes are not in place currently, there is no reason where you cannot implement such products if this is the right direction for you to take.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
• You have been a tech lead before in your area of expertise
• Solid experience with AWS (3+ years) - CloudFormation, CodePipeline, RDS, EC2, CloudFront, SNS, SQS
• Infrastructure-as-code and automating the heck out of everything is your motto
• You have experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
• Familiarity with development in Java-based backend microservice or serverless technologies (Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, etc)
• Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, CodePipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc.
• You can work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

This is a great time to be joining this organisation and is a bit of a one-off opportunity to take the lead here!

Benefits

• A flexible work-from-home policy (1 day per week) and option for flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work autonomously and make use of your creative flair
• Tuesday Breakfasts, Team lunches, Friday socials and regular team events & outings
• 25 days holiday
• Cycle to Work scheme and tech acquisition schemes
• Contrib Pension

APPLY ASAP!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

Engineering Manager

£80,000 - £90,000 + Benefits

London

The Company

Join a leading travel technology company who are using Big Data at the forefront of their operations with endless amounts of data waiting to be utilised

The Role

As an engineering manager you will be working in an agile environment to ensure product are delivered in line with business needs

Responsibilities include:

• Mentor and manage a team of 7 engineers
• Contribute to the long-term vision and technical roadmap
• Apply the appropriate standards and principles when delivering data products
• Ensure code is optimised and suggest configuration changes to improve performance

Skills and Requirements:

To qualify for this Engineering Manager role, you will need:

• Commercial experience managing or leading a team
• Prior experience working with Java, DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong understanding of Engineering architecture

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Sean via the Apply link on this page.

Engineering Manager

£80,000 - £90,000 + Benefits

London

The Company

Join a leading travel technology company who are using Big Data at the forefront of their operations with endless amounts of data waiting to be utilised

The Role

As an engineering manager you will be working in an agile environment to ensure product are delivered in line with business needs

Responsibilities include:

• Mentor and manage a team of 7 engineers
• Contribute to the long-term vision and technical roadmap
• Apply the appropriate standards and principles when delivering data products
• Ensure code is optimised and suggest configuration changes to improve performance

Skills and Requirements:

To qualify for this Engineering Manager role, you will need:

• Commercial experience managing or leading a team
• Prior experience working with Java, DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Strong understanding of Engineering architecture

HOW TO APPLY:

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Sean via the Apply link on this page.

Head of Engineering - Software
Essex

Help drive and deliver the technology strategy of a leading creative business in the heart of Essex.

No 'save yourself the commute to London' clichés needed for this role, it's just an out and out corker in its own right, the fact it's based in Essex is merely a bonus for anyone based locally.

You'll be responsible for the day to day running of a sophisticated engineering function, home to the development, design, QA, DevOps and project delivery teams. Provide technical leadership, implement and drive innovative strategies and methods, and help to develop and maintain the overall technology roadmap.

This role reports in to the board, you'll have an overall duty as part of the senior leadership to help define and deliver the future vision of the company, by filtering that down through the Engineering team, showing innovation qualities, and facilitating overall success and

We're looking for someone who is a confident people manager, who can provide support and lead by example. You'll ideally have a strong software engineering background, with significant hands on development skills. This role will sit above the hands-on coding duties, but you'll need to be in-touch with the latest emerging tools and technologies. The engineering function build and deliver sophisticated cloud SaaS based solutions, so an experience of this would be essential for any prospective applicants.

Here's a look at the current tech stack to give you a flavour of the environment:
o Front-End: AngularJS, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, Karma, Jasmine, React.js, Node.js
o QA: Selenium, Protractor, Cucumber, Browser Stack,
o Backend: C#, .Net, .Net Core, xUnit, WebAPI, MVC, SQL, ORM,
o UE4: C++, Python, BluePrints,
o Cloud: AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, Route53, CloudFormation, lambda
Azure: WebApps, CosmosDB, Blob Storage, ServiceBus, Functions, webjobs
o DevOps: Docker, git, SonarQube, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

I've been fortunate to work with this company for several years and it's very clear to see just how important this hire is to them. If you are interested in a role where you're able to lead an already established and successful engineering function, but also have the opportunity to implement and push change of your own, then I'd be really excited to hear from you.

Head of Engineering - Software
Essex

Help drive and deliver the technology strategy of a leading creative business in the heart of Essex.

No 'save yourself the commute to London' clichés needed for this role, it's just an out and out corker in its own right, the fact it's based in Essex is merely a bonus for anyone based locally.

You'll be responsible for the day to day running of a sophisticated engineering function, home to the development, design, QA, DevOps and project delivery teams. Provide technical leadership, implement and drive innovative strategies and methods, and help to develop and maintain the overall technology roadmap.

This role reports in to the board, you'll have an overall duty as part of the senior leadership to help define and deliver the future vision of the company, by filtering that down through the Engineering team, showing innovation qualities, and facilitating overall success and

We're looking for someone who is a confident people manager, who can provide support and lead by example. You'll ideally have a strong software engineering background, with significant hands on development skills. This role will sit above the hands-on coding duties, but you'll need to be in-touch with the latest emerging tools and technologies. The engineering function build and deliver sophisticated cloud SaaS based solutions, so an experience of this would be essential for any prospective applicants.

Here's a look at the current tech stack to give you a flavour of the environment:
o Front-End: AngularJS, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, Karma, Jasmine, React.js, Node.js
o QA: Selenium, Protractor, Cucumber, Browser Stack,
o Backend: C#, .Net, .Net Core, xUnit, WebAPI, MVC, SQL, ORM,
o UE4: C++, Python, BluePrints,
o Cloud: AWS: EC2, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, Route53, CloudFormation, lambda
Azure: WebApps, CosmosDB, Blob Storage, ServiceBus, Functions, webjobs
o DevOps: Docker, git, SonarQube, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

I've been fortunate to work with this company for several years and it's very clear to see just how important this hire is to them. If you are interested in a role where you're able to lead an already established and successful engineering function, but also have the opportunity to implement and push change of your own, then I'd be really excited to hear from you.

Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE

My client in central London is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE to join their expanding DevOps function. The company place the highest standards on their staff and the Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE needs to be walking effectively independently; as well as part of a small team.

Key responsibilities:

• Experience working with AWS
• Maintenance of product release pipelines
• Supporting the infrastructure/ensuring infrastructure security
• Programming and scripting
• Troubleshooting and reviewing software

You will be working with the latest technology and I am looking to speak with Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE who are competent in:

• AWS
• Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins,
• Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go,
• Python, Groovy, NodeJS, PHP, Bash
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• MySQL, PostgreSQL,

This is a permanent role, paying up to £90,000 for the right candidate. My client will not be willing to offer sponsorship at this time. They can interview as soon as next week and will be able to progress it at short notice.

For more information; send your latest CV to or call me on .

Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE

Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE

My client in central London is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE to join their expanding DevOps function. The company place the highest standards on their staff and the Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE needs to be walking effectively independently; as well as part of a small team.

Key responsibilities:

• Experience working with AWS
• Maintenance of product release pipelines
• Supporting the infrastructure/ensuring infrastructure security
• Programming and scripting
• Troubleshooting and reviewing software

You will be working with the latest technology and I am looking to speak with Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE who are competent in:

• AWS
• Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins,
• Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Go,
• Python, Groovy, NodeJS, PHP, Bash
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• MySQL, PostgreSQL,

This is a permanent role, paying up to £90,000 for the right candidate. My client will not be willing to offer sponsorship at this time. They can interview as soon as next week and will be able to progress it at short notice.

For more information; send your latest CV to or call me on .

Senior DevOps Engineer/ DevOps engineer/ Senior SRE